The server was shutdown via apachectl stop. ~50,000 of those files remain in CacheRoot. Server restart and still those files remain. Seems like a bug. Unless there's some other mechanism that's supposed to take them out of their "temporary" state. --- Dragon <dragon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Richard Hubbell wrote: > >Seeing thousands of files in CacheRoot that look > like > >this: > > > >aptmpZbGOTJ > > > >This clearly seems like a bug. Could this somehow > be > >a feature? I just can't imagine what purpose it > would serve. > ---------------- End original message. > --------------------- > > Why do you think this is a bug? > > It looks like a temporary file name to me. I don't > know the > implementation details of the particular cache > module you are using, > but I would suspect that it uses unique temporary > file names to store > cached content to ensure that there is a unique name > for each cached > item. It really would make no sense to cache a file > under its "real" > name if there are multiple files with that name in > multiple places > under the document root. > > An example where this would apply is a very common > situation where > you would have an index.html file under every > subdirectory in your > document hierarchy. By giving each cached file a > unique name and > mapping the unique file name to the URI, the cache > module will serve > the right one from the cached content. > > > > Dragon > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium > capti sumus) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the > Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for > more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: > users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: > users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx